door opened onto … Sunday Mass in your parish church. Now, you may reply that your weekly experience of Mass is anything but heavenly. In fact, it’s an uncomfortable hour, punctuated by babies screaming, bland hymns sung off-key, meandering, pointless homilies, and neighbors dressed as if they were going to a ball game, the beach, or a picnic. Yet I insist that we do go to heaven when we go to Mass, and this is true of every Mass we attend, regardless of the quality of the music or the fervor of
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